Q2)The gun was called the Colt Paterson: after the small town it was made in. Was Paterson in New Jersey, New York or New Hampshire?

Q3)How many bullets could the gun’s cylinder hold, at one time: four, five or six?

Q4)In which year of the 1830s did Mr Colt receive the patent?

Q5)That original revolver had a .28 caliber. The caliber — or calibre — of a gun is the approximate width of what?

Q6)In making his guns, Colt made one big innovation. What innovation: interchangeable parts or an assembly line?

Q7)Those early revolvers saw use against the Seminole Indians. The Seminole were a tribe in which US state: Alabama, Florida or Georgia?

Q8)Come the US Civil War, Mr Colt made money selling guns to which side?

Q9)One of Colt’s most famous revolvers — the Colt SAA — was first made for who: the US Army, the US Navy or the Texas Rangers?

Q10)Finally … Wyatt Earp was supposed to have carried a custom Colt revolver: called the Buntline Special. How long — in inches — was the barrel of these guns: 10”, 12” or 16”?

Answers.

A1)Yes.

A2)New Jersey.

A3)Five.

A4)1836.

A5)Depending on who you ask, either the internal width of the barrel, or the width of the appropriate bullet.

A6)Interchangeable parts. (Such parts had been made earlier in the century: but Colt introduced machine made, interchangeable parts.)

A7)Florida.

A8)Both.

A9)The US Army. (Indeed, ‘SAA’ stands for ‘Single Action Army’. A version of this gun used a .45 calibre bullet: and was known as the ‘Gun that Won the West.’)

A10)His version was 12 inches. (As far as any one can tell, short story writer, Ned Buntline made up the story about commissioning the things, and presenting them to Earp. Nonetheless, the Colt company makes a ‘Buntline Special’ with a 16” barrel, as a result.)

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